Isaac Watts Mind Quotations

Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.

It would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure.

Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.

Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.

Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.

Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.

When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness.

Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a mind appearing ever serene under the ruffling accidents of human life.